Project officer

Responsibilities:

Program Implementation and Support

– Set-up Workplan for protection activities in compliance with project results and donor requirements.

-Provide leadership to the project field team (Field Officers, Caseworkers, and Social Workers) coordinating and supervising the activities and timely addressing challenges during implementation.

– Assist the Project Manager in doing thorough analysis month financial reports before to identify under spent/overspent project budget lines and draw up comprehensive plan to utilize allocated budget as per the project work plan.

– Assess the needs for goods/services to support activities and report them to the Project Manager ensuring follow up of procurements with Logistic department.

– Establish and maintain relationships with local partners (SARC), local stakeholders and INGOs through effective communication and negotiation in order to ensure achievement of project outcomes.

– In coordination with local partner, support assessments to identify protection needs and gaps in current and prospective areas of operations and prepare SITREP to feed into new project proposals.

Reporting and Documentation

– Monitor project performance against the protocols designed for the program and ensure action points are addressed in their respective timeframe.

– Ensure that projects reporting (internal and external) is completed in a timely and accurate manner in compliance with donor requirements.

– Conduct systematic documentation of projects in the form of case studies, video clips, photos, lessons learnt etc.

– Develop/strengthen protection MEAL tools, in collaboration with project field staff and MEAL.

– Ensure the implementation of sufficient monthly monitoring and evaluation of FSL projects.

– Ensure proper filling and data storage for Protection/FSL related activities for all the projects.

– Assist the Head of Programme/Project Manager in the dissemination of the findings and results of surveys and ongoing analysis within COOPI.

– Ensure the implementation of sufficient monthly monitoring and evaluation of FSL projects.

– Ensure that Protection/FSL data is collected, archived, processed, analyzed and disseminated in ethical modalities, in line with internal data protection protocols.

– Undertale regular field monitoring visits to assess ongoing activities and prepare reports to monitor quality of programmes implementation.

Compliance
– Organize ad hoc protection meeting with field staff, under his/her direct supervision, and other staff as relevant to share challenges and priorities and develop action plans to address them.
– Ensure that project staff under his/her direct responsibilities are able to perform their roles and responsibilities and provide knowledge transfer if as needed.
– Ensure a positive work environment, showing sensitivity and understanding in resolving conflicts and facilitating productive discussions with staff and stakeholders.
– Ensure activities are implemented in line with COOPI Code of Conduct, Standard Operational Procedures (SOPs), policies and guidelines on Protection, Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA).
– Perform any other task relevant to the project as assigned by HoP.

Qualifications and Experience:

– Bachelor Degree in Economic, Law, Social Sciences, Psychology, Social Work, or other field related to social development and humanitarian work.

– Minimum of 3 years of relevant implementation experience in FSL or protection-related sector with NGOs, including working in community-based protection (such as working with vulnerable persons)

– Ability to plan activities to reach target results and objectives.

– Experienced in preparing/revising monitoring tools and systems, data collection, and analysis.

– Good understanding of livelihoods and protection concepts in both emergency and development contexts.

– Excellent reporting skills/experience in reporting livelihood and protection activities and issues.

Skills

– Ability to plan and organize work under pressure and in a rapidly changing environment.

– Solid team working and management skills in a multicultural environment.

– Positive, problem solver, and dynamic with the ability to motivate and guide staff.

– Builds trust with contacts through openness and honesty.

– Builds strong relationships with a broad range of stakeholders.

– Fluency in English (written and oral).

– Arabic native speaker.

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